Best Epithet Poems

Here, beneath the sky of my mind,
in the swaying hammock of my heart, 
strung between tall palms of loss and love -
lies a child's form furled , asleep.
RainGirl is this little one's name,
her father called her this -
" She who was born with the rain,"
born...

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“Admirable beacon of rectitude”
A great sounding epithet said of me
You think? That depends on whose point of view.
It’s like the fruit of a poisonous tree.
It looks harmless, nonetheless toxic.
It can be said for the appellation-
Sounds great yet often a vitriolic
Mean-spirited, misinterpretation.
The interpretation, self-righteousness
In the meanest,...

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Disarrayed sands
dislodged from timeless domain,
dropped by chaotic instants,
settle ceaseless,
                   bemused
on stratified shelf 
of languid life,
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